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Family cemeteries scattered across Kentucky offer a window to the past. Can they survive?
November 28, 2022
Family cemeteries in rural Kentucky are disappearing, but local communities are still working to preserve them.
Photo by Jesse Barber.
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​The 'drowning machine': Aging low-head dams in Kentucky, across the US are killing hundreds
October 20, 2022
Unregulated low-head dams are scattered across the country. Many create currents that can kill.
Photo by Jesse Barber.
Welcome to ReCreation Land
March 11, 2022
The Big Muskie, a strip-mining machine in central Ohio, led to the destruction of workers' lungs. It also fostered a place of community.
Photo courtesy of Jeff Hall.
We Will Never Trade What is Sacred: Pariri Indigenous Association
September 8, 2021
Munduruku leaders, working with the Pariri Indigenous Association, have walked over 100 kilometers in the Daje Kapap Eipi territory in Pará, Brazil. In 2014, they embarked on a new project to protect this land from illegal loggers and miners.
Photo courtesy of Cultural Survival.
Walking in a Deer's Body
June 21, 2021
An exploration of the pandemic, walking barefoot in the woods, and how humans are just another animal.
Photo by Marek Mucha.
Interview with Carolyn Ferrell for STORY Magazine
January 30, 2021
Hume speaks with Carolyn Ferrell about her upcoming novel, writing characters who are hidden, and re-visiting her childhood. Ferrell is the author of the short-story collection Don’t Erase Me. Her work can be found in Best American Short Stories 2018 and 2020, and in The Best American Short Stories of the Century, among many other places. Her story “Something Street” is in Story’s summer 2019 issue.
Photo courtesy of Luca Sartoni.